ghost_of_electricity - art. 1

"L'Italia è una Repubblica democratica, fondata sul lavoro. La sovranità appartiene al popolo, che la esercita nelle forme e nei limiti della Costituzione".

[ghost_of_electricity - art. 1 @ghostofel]

2014-2022

"our children will go to schools and kindergardens, theirs will hole up in the basements
because they are not able to do a thing
this is exactly how we will win this war" (poroshenko - 2014)

photo - andy rocchelli - killed 24/05/2014

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

This is Europe in 2022 not in 1942. People are seeking shelter in Kiev’s Golden Gate Metro station as warnings mount of attacks on the city tonight. All in the name of what Vladimir Putin calls de-Nazification

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Germany is now talking about “Plaza Accord” style talks on the yuan.

That alone says everything.

They are still dreaming of doing to China what the United States once did to Japan in the 1980s.

Force currency adjustment.
Crush export competitiveness.
Rewire the industrial balance.

Turn a rising manufacturing power into a managed client economy.

But there is one problem.

China is not Japan.

China is not a defeated, occupied, security-dependent U.S. colony.
China does not host American troops as the price of sovereignty.
China does not outsource its strategic survival to Washington.
China does not mistake a leash for an alliance.

If Europe is looking for the new Japan, it should look in the mirror.

Europe is the one following Washington’s sanctions.
Europe is the one cutting itself off from cheap energy.
Europe is the one restricting high-end exports under U.S. pressure.
Europe is the one losing industry, losing competitiveness, and then blaming China for producing what Europe no longer can.

China did not create Europe’s industrial weakness.
Europe chose deindustrialization, dependency, expensive energy, moral theater, and strategic obedience.

Now it wants to call China’s competitiveness “overcapacity” and China’s currency “undervalued.”

No.
This is not 1985.

China is not Japan.
Europe is.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Rural workers in Bolivia will continue to strike despite the state of exception that authorises military force against them.

The main union confedation had agreed to end strikes in exchange for end to privatizations. These rural federations want to continue until govt resigns.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The EU representative in Israel just had ''a lot of fun'' in Bersheva. 40 km from the Gaza destruction camp, where Israel -army, institutions, politicians- has condemned what remains of Gaza and its people, to absolute misery.

Every era has its blind spots and zones of interest.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You’ve been whitewashing Israel’s genocide against Palestinians for almost three years, what did you expect?

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"At least I'm not them" is the most important sentence in American political life, and almost nobody says it out loud.

At least I'm not on welfare.

At least I'm not undocumented.

At least I have insurance, even if it's bad.

At least my kids go to a real school, even if it's underfunded.

At least I'm a citizen.

At least I'm not in that neighborhood.

Every one of these sentences requires a "them."

A category of person positioned just below you, whose existence makes your own precarious situation feel like success by comparison.

The empire does not need to lift you up.

It only needs to keep someone visibly below you.

And it has spent two hundred and fifty years making absolutely sure there is always, always, a "them": by race, by status, by citizenship, by neighborhood.

So that the people being squeezed from above spend their energy looking down instead of up.

[Gerald markel @MarkelGerald]

Weil es immer noch so viele meiner Leser nicht glauben können
Es ist Realität
Sie wollen den Letzten Grossen Krieg gegen Russland

Sie wollen weil Sie allen Ernstes glauben Sie können den Krieg gewinnen
Sie denken man kann die Ukrainer auf Dauer einsetzen wie Rom seinerzeit die germanischen Söldner eingesetzt hat die Kriege zu kämpfen die das dekadent gewordene Rom nicht mehr führen konnte
Sie sind blind in Ihrer Russophobiepsychose und verzweifelt weil das ökonomische Kartenhaus Europa an allen Ecken schon brennt, weil das Finanzcasino die Kredite zurückfordert und die Sozialsysteme unfinanzierbar geworden sind

Krieg gegen Russland, die Erschliessung und Ausbeutung der grössten Rohstoffvorräte des Globus, die Zerschlagung des größten Landes der Erde - das ist der Traum

Und Sie können nicht glauben, dass Russland tatsächlich seine Atombomben zündet bevor es untergeht, Sie glauben fest daran, dass dies undenkbar ist

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Es sind Wahnsinnige
Wir Europa werden von Wahnsinnigen in den Untergang geführt

Achja - und bevor jemand fragt - dieser Mann, dieser Russophobiepsychotiker wäre um ein Haar der deutsche Armeeminister geworden
Der ist kein Einzelfall - hört den anderen zu - Sie sind alle wahnsinnig - es ist wieder soweit...
GM

[Margarita Simonyan @M_Simonyan]

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: "Foreign Minister Wadephul announced sometime last month or the month before, that the German military would expand its exchange of experience with the armed forces of Ukraine. That is, with the new Nazis."

Well, these people have been longing for the Nazi insignia for quite some time. Finally, their dreams have come true. Of course, it will end the same way it ended the last time.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The return of German war enthusiasm should probably be greeted with more scepticism in Europe

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

The “shadow fleet” myth is simply a theatrical ploy to manipulate gullible Western audiences. It’s essentially a scare tactic used to justify thuggery against normal global trade.

Russia sells. China, India, Egypt buy. Europe pays with deindustrialization.

This boarding changes nothing on the battlefield it only exposes imperial frustration as the multipolar world simply routes around their edicts.

Real aggression is trying to turn the oceans into your private enforcement zone while lecturing everyone else about "rules-based order."

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You lied about Iraq, no one trusts you.

[Andrea Lucidi @AndreaLucidi]

Nathalie Tocci: "i biolaboratori in Ucraina? Bufala e disinformazione!"

Il 2 maggio 2022 a L'aria che tira, su La7, di fronte alla domanda di Alberto Contri riguardo ai biolaboratori finanziati dagli USA in Ucraina, Nathali Tocci diceva che si trattava di "una bufala" e di "disinformazione".

Cosa ha da dire ora che l'intelligence americana ha rilasciato i documenti che confermano la presenza di questi laboratori sul territorio ucraino?

[Richard @ricwe123]

That moment when Denmark's parliament was giving a standing ovation to a Ukrainian neo-nazi from the Azov Regiment.

This man proudly quoted "Read Mein Kampf" on his social media and listed his hometown as "Babiy Yar," mocking the site of one of the Holocaust's worst massacres..

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Israel is destroying every single home in the southern 40 miles of Lebanon.

This is not “targeting Hezbollah strongholds.”

These are Christian villages and Sunni villages and Shia villages where people have lived for centuries.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

In the wake of the coup, Guatemala was ruled by a series of brutal right-wing dictatorships for the next forty-two years, all with US support. The military regime massacred 200,000 Mayans, in what scholars have described as a genocide.

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

Cut the crap, Mr. Secretary. This is beneath what used to b the reputation of the State Department. This isn’t about you discovering communist elites are suddenly “weaponizing” anything.

This is a nearly naked attempt to deceive the American people *yet again* into believing that we “have to” go to war with Cuba.

It is an egregious and immoral use of power to crush this tiny island that is a threat to no one, most especially the United States of America.

If you are going to b an imperial power to simply take what you want, and kill anyone who gets in ur way, at least have the guts to say so, instead of this humiliating effort at pretending this has anything to do w caring for others or protecting our country.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: "Greater Israel" is now marketed in London. Like in Montreal and in New York.
Apartheid without borders.

P.S. This explains why criticism of Israel is being restricted (and "anti-antisemitism" laws keep appearing). Apartheid is not only a crime. It is a business model.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Fuck you, @washingtonpost . Amal did not ‘die,’ she was deliberately targeted and murdered after receiving threats from the Israeli army. She was in touch with us, her colleagues, during this situation. We all know exactly what happened. Shame on you for intentionally diminishing the criminality of the actions of the Israeli army with this headline. Shame on all of you and your correspondents in Beirut.

I hope to see you on trial for your propaganda in my lifetime.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Self-defense”

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Every recent war is connected to US oil and gas.

Gaza. Ukraine. Venezuela. Iran. Libya. Syria. Iraq.

US officials like Dick Cheney planned this takeover of global energy decades ago.

Once you understand how much this benefits the US and the Dollar, everything makes sense.

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

Nonsense!

There is no such thing as a “self-defense strike” when you are the initial aggressor. No state can invoke self-defense while stationing helicopters and drones along another country’s borders for the purpose of enforcing an unlawful naval blockade, systematically and repeatedly violating that country’s airspace, particularly when the entire operation is being conducted 8,000 miles from its own mainland.

Any military action undertaken by the initial aggressor in response to a state’s lawful exercise of self-defense is not "defensive" by any standard. It is merely a continuation of the original unlawful use of force and act of aggression.

Furthermore, attacking Iran’s water infrastructure in response to the downing of a single intruding helicopter cannot plausibly be described as “proportionate” either. Such an attack constitutes a serious war crime, both because it violates the principle of proportionality and because of the civilian nature of the targets.